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River Flood Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS

April 23, 2010Lyon County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this river flood warning at Apr 23, 2010, 4:34 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 23, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2010, 4:34 AM CDT (09:34 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 23, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 23, 2010, 2:20 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Flood severity: Moderate

County Lyon County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Neosho River at Emporia (EPRK1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 19.5 ft
Major stage: 30.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 23, 3:36 AM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 3:36 AM CDT, 58 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	25 hr
Apr 22, 10:02 PM CDT	Flood Watch	TOP	Anderson, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 12 more	15 hr
Apr 23, 6:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	27 hr
Apr 23, 8:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	7 hr
Apr 23, 9:10 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	12 hr
Apr 23, 9:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TOP	Marshall	11 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.